I don't often use that faux retro dot effect because, although it does kinda evoke the look of all the old, badly printed comics from my childhood, it doesn't really reflect how the colours FELT to me when I was a kid. When I looked at the dotty patterns back then my brain interpretted them as flat colours... So when I'm trying to do a retro job I want the colours to be flat, the way I perceived them back then.In this case though I thought I'd make an exception. Original art pencils by Kirby, inks by Royer from the final issue of The Forever People... KRAKLE!

Monday, October 3, 2011

I've got a little bit obsessive about really minimal pallettes of flat colours. This version of the picture has 16 colours and in some ways I like it more than the "painted" version. This simplification means you really need to think about the relationships between the colours you're using.

Sunday, October 2, 2011

I coloured up this picture a couple of weeks ago after I found the original artwork in a big pile of my old drawings. Very pleased with how it's turned out though alot of the fine detail has dropped out...